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IANS | 12 Aug, 2022
HyperSocial CEO Braden Wallake has been mocked for posting a photo of
himself in tears online after laying off some of its employees.
Wallake,
who founded Hyper Social in 2016, posted a lengthy message to LinkedIn
this week explaining his devastation at dismissing the employees,
reports the DailyMail.
"I know it is not professional to tell my
employees that I love them. But from the bottom of my heart, I hope they
know how much I do," he said.
On Wednesday, he admitted that
only two of his employees lost their jobs -- with his girlfriend Emily
Chucta, the chief operations officer, firing the second, the report
said.
Meanwhile, social media users took different platforms to slam the CEO.
"Maybe
the crying CEO who had like 20 employees did a good thing for those
still there. It is probably the most publicity his company has ever
received. I had never even heard of HyperSocial before. They are not
even on Twitter," a user wrote on the microblogging site Twitter.
"#BradenWallake,
the 'crying CEO', used #LinkedIn to consolidate his position on sacking
employees. Poor guy just wanted to present his human face. Wrong
decision to use Linked. He should have used TikTok or Instagram instead.
LinkedIn is the new Facebook!" taking a dig at the CEO, another user
wrote.
Wallake told Motherboard that both of the laid-off
employees were "over-the-top nice" about it and "assured" him and Chucta
that they were "going to be okay".
He said he decided to make the LinkedIn post several hours later.
"I
was just sitting here at my desk, just kind of crying, I guess, and
decided to make the post because I have seen a lot on LinkedIn recently
of how awful business owners and CEOs are for laying off their employees
and that they are laying off employees while they are getting their
third house in the Bahamas or wherever," Wallake said.
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